(My sharing on the first Station of the go)
As promised in my last article titled, "Be Silent and listen", i am sharing now a few of my learnings and inspirations from the three-day silent retreat that I attended early this July.
close the proper of my bucket checklist reads, "Go to a Holy Land Pilgrimage, and stroll where Jesus walked." well, up to now, this item is still unticked. I'm still praying for this to ensue. however, thanks to Father Vic Santos, our retreat master, I had a prelude to running where Jesus walked. in reality, I do not need to go to the Holy Land to walk the place Jesus walked. Father Vic led us, the retreatants to a adventure accompanying Jesus within the method of the cross, as he shared his inspired meditations on each and every station.
one in all my top of the line learnings from this retreat is this. whenever i'm reading The observe of God, I should still think about and put myself in the scene being read. the first stat ion is when Jesus become condemned to death.
i will hear the individuals shouting the criminal's identify "Barrabas!", when requested through Pontius Pilate to choose whom they desired launched. And shouting even louder, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" when requested, "What then am I to do with Jesus?" How could Pilate wash his palms of this great tragedy? He knew Jesus was innocent! I couldn't assist but cry internal.
And yet, If I were to be very sincere, I do not know if i might have executed in another way, in entrance of an irritated mob.
returned to the scene, I see Jesus along with his arms tied collectively in entrance of Him. He remains silent. My heart is reaching out to His. I want to beg Him to please do whatever thing! Do one of His miracles. This can not be occurring! where are all His disciples? Have all of them left Him? What am i able to do?
My Dearest fellow pilgrims,
I ask you as I ask myself too, "Are you willing to acc ompany Jesus?" he is knocking at our hearts, pleading along with his silent presence. He wants to enter. we could retain the doors of our hearts locked? Will we be just like the cowardly Pilate, more concerned about what the individuals will say and do to him? Will we be just like the fickle-minded Herod, who saw simplest what he desired to see.
even though the actuality turned into already in front of him, he couldn't see. Or are we able to face the certainty, about God and about ourselves? Are we ready to face our wickedness and beg God's forgiveness? Are we able to love the style Jesus adored; giving everything, and loving until the end, without a compromise? Tall order? "what's inconceivable for man is feasible with God." - Luke 18:27
I believe Father Vic. Jesus gently knocks at our hearts widespread, in a variety of ways. occasionally he knocks, through the words in a music, in a line of a book we're analyzing, in a forwarded textual content message, throu gh an information, with the sizzling sun, the relentless rain, an event, an article in a newspaper, and a lot of other ways. every now and then we don't hear or ... we refuse to listen to; on occasion we're too busy, fake to be busy, or simply do not pay consideration. The truth is, God will on no account force Himself on us, that's why He has given us the free will to select what we need. but, as a result of he's our loving Father, He waits and waits endlessly.
I conclude this article by way of sharing with you the identical invitation I got from Jesus to open our hearts to Him and listen to what he's telling us and is asking of us. If simplest we realize just how plenty He in fact loves us, we are able to no longer hesitate to walk the place He walked.
"therefore so as you bought Jesus Christ our Lord, so stroll in Him." - Collosians 2:6
P.S. I hesitated sending this article, considering the readers can be became off and say it's too preachy. but then i a ssumed of Pilate. Do I care more about what the readers will believe and say about me? Or do I care about what I accept as true with is following God's will and attractive the daddy? despite the fact that only one reader hears the mild knocking of God via this article, it would have been value all of the ridicule i will receive.
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